Question

This person is the oldest in a series of supposed letters documented in the Arabic manuscript Secret of Secrets. Plutarch hinted that this person engaged in a poisoning plot after a ruler executed this person’s great-nephew Callisthenes. This native of Stagira refused to let Athens “sin twice” and fled to Euboea (“yoo-BEE-ah”) after receiving impiety charges. (-5[1])This person taught that barbarians and slaves were identical (-5[1])to a student (10[1])he took under the patronage of Philip II. (10[3])A cloister where this person and his students (10[1])walked lends its name to the Peripatetic school he founded at the Lyceum. For 10 points, name this tutor to Alexander (10[1])the Great, (10[1])a Greek philosopher who wrote the Nicomachean Ethics. ■END■

ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotéles]
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Beckett Gilmore (DII)Jefferson County Scholars (DII)Ohio State B (DII) 54-5
Oliver Thompson (DII)CWRU C (UG)West Virginia B (UG) 63-5
Kevin Zheng (UG)Michigan A (UG) Miami A (UG) 6610
Cade Smith (UG)Michigan State A CWRU A (UG) 7410
Peter Ballas (DII)Michigan C Miami C (DII) 7410
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2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY888%0%25%82.57
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY683%0%50%95.40
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1191%0%27%89.30
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY10100%0%20%95.20
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%60%102.00
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2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY989%0%33%82.25